[[File:Books chapterart hbp 30.jpg|thumb|400px|Dumbledore's Tomb]]It was Dumbledore's wish to be [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore|laid to rest]] in Hogwarts' grounds, and his supporters, friends, and colleagues ensured that his wish was carried out. Despite the fact that no other [[Headmaster]]s or Headmistresses had ever been laid to rest at Hogwarts before, the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] respected Dumbledore's wishes due to his great standing in the wizarding community. During his funeral, directly after a [[Ceremony official|man]] gave his eulogy, his body was encased in bright white flames that gave off smoke in strange patterns, and Harry Potter thought he saw [[Fawkes|the form of a phoenix]] fly out of the blaze. When it subsided, Dumbledore was closed in this tomb.

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[[File:Books chapterart hbp 30.jpg|thumb|400px|Dumbledore's Tomb]]It was Dumbledore's wish to be [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore|laid to rest]] in Hogwarts' grounds, and his supporters, friends, and colleagues ensured that his wish was carried out. Despite the fact that no other [[Headmaster]]s or Headmistresses had ever been laid to rest at Hogwarts before, the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] respected Dumbledore's wishes due to his great standing in the wizarding community. During his funeral, directly after a [[Ceremony official|man]] gave his eulogy, his body was encased in bright white [[Fire|flames]] that gave off smoke in strange patterns, and Harry Potter thought he saw [[Fawkes|the form of a phoenix]] fly out of the blaze. When it subsided, Dumbledore was closed in this tomb.

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Dumbledore's Tomb

It was Dumbledore's wish to be laid to rest in Hogwarts' grounds, and his supporters, friends, and colleagues ensured that his wish was carried out. Despite the fact that no other Headmasters or Headmistresses had ever been laid to rest at Hogwarts before, the Ministry respected Dumbledore's wishes due to his great standing in the wizarding community. During his funeral, directly after a man gave his eulogy, his body was encased in bright white flames that gave off smoke in strange patterns, and Harry Potter thought he saw the form of a phoenix fly out of the blaze. When it subsided, Dumbledore was closed in this tomb.

In 1998, Lord Voldemort, during his search for the Elder Wand, demanded the location of the wand from Gellert Grindelwald in his cell in Nurmengard prison. Grindelwald refused to tell him anything, possibly out of a desire not to see his old friend's grave desecrated, or as a sign of remorse for all the atrocities he committed earlier in his life. However, Voldemort eventually deduced that Dumbledore had won the Elder Wand from Grindelwald, who himself stole it from Gregorovitch. Voldemort flew to Hogwarts and used his own wand to crack open the White Tomb from head to foot, and then removed the sheets from around Dumbledore's body, allowing him to take the wand within, which had been buried with its owner. He did not realise that Harry Potter had won the allegiance of the wand from Draco during a skirmish in the Malfoy Manor not long before.

Following Voldemort's death on May 2 at the conclusion of the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, the one who had slain Voldemort utilising his mastership of the Elder Wand, returned the wand to the White Tomb, restoring it and ensuring Dumbledore's resting place would remain undisturbed.

Originally, Alfonso Cuaron, who directed the third film, was going to include a graveyard on the Hogwarts grounds. J. K. Rowling rejected this idea, seeing as the White Tomb is the only grave located at the school.